P-700 cells were 20. I thought UKSK launchers would be more or at least 20

The original angled launch tubes held only one missile so with 20 tubes it could carry 20 missiles.

There seems to be room for 10 UKSK launchers... each UKSK launcher has 8 tubes so instead of carrying 20 Granits it will be able to carry as many as 80 Onyx missiles.

It will probably depend on how well the upgrade turns out whether a second one gets upgraded

This is very true... if it goes well and creates a very powerful and very useful ship then they might consider upgrading as many as they can. If it is a terrible failure they might revise the upgrade to be more modest and only upgrade the two they probably think they need.

Interesting - missile complex "Movement"

Movement is the English translation of Kalibr... the 2,500km range land attack cruise missile.

By the sound of it after Nakhimov, Peter the Great will go in for repairs and modernization. By the time it comes out of the shop it will be 2020 or later.....by that point the others will be scrap metal, 99% sure.

I rather suspect they might keep maintaining the remaining hulls just in case they are wanted.

It would be 200% complete idiocy not upgrade the remaining kirovs escpecially when the Russian navy can't build more big ships until another 20-30 years.

The Russian ship yards are getting ready to build very large oil tankers and natural gas carriers... and in the 2020s will likely make carriers so I think your estimate of 20-30 years is wide of the mark.

The Lazarev and Kirov are in shit shape.

Most of the components will be replaced... it is like my favourite hammer... it has only had two new heads and three new handles. The bits that are no good are being replaced with new standardised components that will be common throughout the fleet, which should make them cheaper and easier to operate than ever before.

Lazarev is technically in "reserve" but we can see what awful shape the ship is in, and the direction it is heading in. In another 5 years it will look even worse.

Peter the Great will need its first "serious" repairs later this decade. If they try to reactivate all 4, chances are it will serious interrupt Peter the Great's and Nakhimov lives (only Sevmash can work on them), not to mention impact new shipbuilding.

Price is even more problematic because the other two are in much worse shape from the get-go than Nakhimov, which has actually been preserved.

Everything (and all insider sources) point to the other two ships being dead men. You guys can bump this in 6 years when I will be right .

EDIT: But honestly I am ok with it. Two ships of that size and expense are enough.

EDIT 2: Also what is intersting is what modernization Peter the Great is getting. It already has longer range Fort, so I am guessing Redut-Poliment in this case will involve 48N6 sized missiled. Should be a great combo with the 9M96s. Also curious what they will do about the forward Kinzhal battery, which was never actually fitted.

TR1 wrote:Lazarev is technically in "reserve" but we can see what awful shape the ship is in, and the direction it is heading in. In another 5 years it will look even worse.

Peter the Great will need its first "serious" repairs later this decade. If they try to reactivate all 4, chances are it will serious interrupt Peter the Great's and Nakhimov lives (only Sevmash can work on them), not to mention impact new shipbuilding.

Price is even more problematic because the other two are in much worse shape from the get-go than Nakhimov, which has actually been preserved.

Everything (and all insider sources) point to the other two ships being dead men. You guys can bump this in 6 years when I will be right .

EDIT: But honestly I am ok with it. Two ships of that size and expense are enough.

EDIT 2: Also what is intersting is what modernization Peter the Great is getting. It already has longer range Fort, so I am guessing Redut-Poliment in this case will involve 48N6 sized missiled. Should be a great combo with the 9M96s. Also curious what they will do about the forward Kinzhal battery, which was never actually fitted.

i agree, modernization of 2 such ships are enough. I wonder what other use would be for the other 2 Kirovs, perhaps could be converted to electronic warfare ships with a reasonable cost?

TR1 wrote:Lazarev is technically in "reserve" but we can see what awful shape the ship is in, and the direction it is heading in. In another 5 years it will look even worse.

Peter the Great will need its first "serious" repairs later this decade. If they try to reactivate all 4, chances are it will serious interrupt Peter the Great's and Nakhimov lives (only Sevmash can work on them), not to mention impact new shipbuilding.

Price is even more problematic because the other two are in much worse shape from the get-go than Nakhimov, which has actually been preserved.

Everything (and all insider sources) point to the other two ships being dead men. You guys can bump this in 6 years when I will be right .

EDIT: But honestly I am ok with it. Two ships of that size and expense are enough.

EDIT 2: Also what is intersting is what modernization Peter the Great is getting. It already has longer range Fort, so I am guessing Redut-Poliment in this case will involve 48N6 sized missiled. Should be a great combo with the 9M96s. Also curious what they will do about the forward Kinzhal battery, which was never actually fitted.

i agree, modernization of 2 such ships are enough. I wonder what other use would be for the other 2 Kirovs, perhaps could be converted to electronic warfare ships with a reasonable cost?

KomissarBojanchev wrote:Repairing and upgrading the 2 more kirovs would be rather cheaper and faster than building cruisers from scratch or using only 2-4 gorshkovs or destroyers per fleet.

Cheaper and faster than building 24,000 ton cruisers, yes.

But the Russian navy has no plans to build cruisers of that size, not in the foreseeable future, so the point is moot.

For the price of bringing back Lazarev and Kirov you would get more than 4 Gorshkovs in all likelihood. Given the costs floated so far just for the Nakhimovs technical project, the project ain't cheap.

Gorshkov frigates are also far far cheaper to operate and require much smaller crew.

And more useful for most deployments the fleet does. Nakhimov and Peter will be enough for the "flag showing" tours, or to act as task force centerpieces.

Nakhimov and Peter will be enough for the "flag showing" tours, or to act as task force centerpieces.

I agree... two cruisers is probably enough, though three might be possible.

With upgraded Slavas they should have pretty good cores for carrier groups... a fixed wing carrier, a Kirov, a Slava, a Mistral, 3-4 destroyers and a few Frigates to round out the force plus support vessels and specialised vessels like ice breakers etc.

MOSCOW, January 24 (RIA Novosti) – The refit of one of Russia’s four heavy nuclear-powered missile cruisers has begun after years of delays, the country’s largest shipbuilder said Friday.The work on the Admiral Nakhimov will revamp its firepower and set the stage for the revitalization of the Russian Navy’s capital ships, which have not been modernized in the post-Soviet era.The vessel, formerly named the Kalinin, is one of four Kirov-class missile cruisers, the largest surface combat ships in operation with any navy. Only one of the ships, the Pyotr Veliky, is operational, but Russia plans to return the other three to service starting with the Admiral Nakhimov in 2018.Russia also has a single aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, currently deployed in the Mediterranean.

Sevmash shipyard said in a statement that the schedule for work on the cruiser this year has already been drawn up.

Only 1 Slava is being scrapped, and that is the never finished Ukraina. The others all have secure futures.

There are no further Typhoons being scrapped yet (earlier several were of course)...Donskoy is a test ship, and Arkhangelsk and Severstal and chilling near Sevmash while they decide what to do with them.

Will have been nice a new class ,brand new very Stealthy super Cruiser done from scratch for the pacific fleet . With S-500s ,S-400s ,and Pantirs ,the usual Kalibrs ,4-5-helicopters that could be stored inside , AESA radars but also capability to launch Iskanders-M with up to 2500 km range from the ship ,and screw any arms treaty as China does, effectively turning the ship into an all around defense-offense super cruiser ,just for show of power.

That's why we need someone ruling Russia that has the interest of the working class and people in general instead of the oil sucking capitalists and ruling class, namely the anticapitalists like KPRF, Left party Alternatives, etc. They're made of true patriots who will improve their nation no matter what hardships they endure.

TR1 wrote:Well, it would be nice if Putin could shit money too, but unfortunately, it's not the case.

He would rather constipate it, or shit it out for some new mansion or superexpensive holiday trips. The the Russian working class on the contrary will do everything they can to improve the countrie's condition.

The unification of components in these upgraded cruisers will likely make them much more efficient and cheap to operate, but their effect will be rather striking and of rather more value than a few extra destroyers.

With improved automation their crews will not be huge and their performance greatly enhanced.

You can't replace big ships in the navy with smaller ships... it doesn't work that way.

The Russian Navy is going to be rather smaller than the Soviet Navy and needs effective warships... the Kirovs were excellent vessels even if they did have fairly complicated drive trains.

TR1 wrote:Well, it would be nice if Putin could shit money too, but unfortunately, it's not the case.

He would rather constipate it, or shit it out for some new mansion or superexpensive holiday trips. The the Russian working class on the contrary will do everything they can to improve the countrie's condition.

The Russian working class gives more about what it can eat and fuck in a given day that any national glory.

Sorry man, teh working class rising up in a glorious revolution is something not in tune with reality of....just people.

Sorry man, teh working class rising up in a glorious revolution is something not in tune with reality of....just people.

And the same thieves and liars that are communist governments are thieves and liars in a democratic government... the people just get the opportunity to change them over a regular period... which actually means in practise twice as many because you have the government and the main opposition... so twice as many leeches and thieves.

They call it democracy and freedom... real democracy is everyone having a voice... no matter how small their wallet is. Real freedom only comes from serious wealth.